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Another
sewage treatment plant for city soon
Chandigarh, June 12
The city will have a new sewage
treatment plant just south of Sector 47 and work on the same will start
within one month, while the Punjab Government had been approached to
expand the existing sewage treatment its capacity from 30 million
gallons a day to 50 MGD.
Speeding
bus hits animal
Dera Bassi, June 12
Hopes of a farmer were dashed to
the ground after a speeding Haryana Roadway bus ran over his newly
purchased cow in the middle of the Ghaggar river bridge on the busy
Chandigarh-Ambala highway in Bhankharpur village, about 4 km from here,
this noon.
ULTA PULTA
Business
scope of religion
WHEN the 10th Guru of the
Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singh, founded the “Khalsa Panth” by making
people of different castes and communities partake “amrit” in an
effort to abolish caste differences, he could not have imagined that 300
years later Sikhs would build separate gurdwaras in each village and
town.
A
clarification
REFERENCE
to a news report, “CBI raids in Barog, city to locate Bhardwaj”,
published in Chandigarh Tribune on May 22, it is clarified that Mr Rajan
Malhotra, counsel for Chandigarh’s suspended Judicial Magistrate S.S.
Bhardwaj, is not an employee of the Central Bureau of Investigation and
as such can take up a case registered by it.
Saving
slum-dwellers from agony of AIDS
Chandigarh, June 11
Unmindful of the threat of AIDS and
other infections a group of youths huddled in a dingy room in a slum
colony share a syringe, filled with a cocktail of drugs. For them using
the same syringe is as common as rubbing it on a stone to sharpen the
needle, which becomes blunt after frequent use.
BJP:
action on internal changes put on hold
Chandigarh, June 12
The BJP today claimed that the
action on notices issued for internal changes in houses in violation of
bylaws had been put on hold till a committee, to be set up, gave its
report.
Charity
home inmates visit Fun City
Ramgarh (Panchkula),
June 12
As 113 inmates of the home of
Missionaries of Charity, Sector 23, Chandigarh, reached Fun City
on a visit here today, their joy knew no bounds. Under the
guidance of Sister Sunita, in charge of the home, they reached the
venue and had a gala time. They took joy rides and splashed in
water.
Inmates of the home of Missionaries of Charity, Sector 23, Chandigarh, enjoy their visit to Fun City in Panchkula on Thursday.
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 PLATFORM:
SAVE WATER
Awareness
needed
“Little drops of water, little drops of rain, Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land...”
It is because of unwanted fiddling with nature by human beings that the water crisis surfaces every now and then. Man’s attempt of deforestation in the quest for urbanisation has boomeranged on him.
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